Network Exchange Theory - by David Willer (Hardcover)

About the Book

The field of network exchange has grown over the last 20 years from a few scattered studies to substantial publications in leading journals. Today network exchange is as advanced as any area of sociology. Willer and his contributors present its most advanced theory, Network Exchange Theory, and, by assembling and supplementing formulations now spread across leading journals, provide scholars with a unique collection.

Contributors examine basic issues in theory as well as research. The end product is a well-tested theory which relates social structure to social action under a wide range of conditions, and is proven to be a useful tool for structural analysis at both the micro and macro levels. An important text and guide for researchers and students of social theory, structure, and social psychology.

Book Synopsis

The field of network exchange has grown over the last 20 years from a few scattered studies to substantial publications in leading journals. Today network exchange is as advanced as any area of sociology. Willer and his contributors present its most advanced theory, Network Exchange Theory, and, by assembling and supplementing formulations now spread across leading journals, provide scholars with a unique collection.

Contributors examine basic issues in theory as well as research. The end product is a well-tested theory which relates social structure to social action under a wide range of conditions, and is proven to be a useful tool for structural analysis at both the micro and macro levels. An important text and guide for researchers and students of social theory, structure, and social psychology.

Review Quotes

.,."intended to be a foundational text that contains all of the agreed upon accomplishments of this line of research, providing new researchers with a clear understanding of where the most beneficial work needs to be accomplished."-Social Forces

?...intended to be a foundational text that contains all of the agreed upon accomplishments of this line of research, providing new researchers with a clear understanding of where the most beneficial work needs to be accomplished.?-Social Forces

?The book presents a coherent and comprehensive statement of the theory and its major contributions. Those teaching graduate seminars in formal theory, experimental methods, stratification, game theory, rational choice, social excahnge, and network theory will find it helpful to have a single volume that contains (1) the principal empirical discoveries predicted by NET; (2) major controversies involving rival theories; and editorial notes that locate each advance within the larder NET research program.?-American Journal of Sociology

?Willer opens many perspectives, enough to give NET researchers lots of incentives to break through the borders of the paradigm.?-Contemporary Sociology

..."intended to be a foundational text that contains all of the agreed upon accomplishments of this line of research, providing new researchers with a clear understanding of where the most beneficial work needs to be accomplished."-Social Forces

"Willer opens many perspectives, enough to give NET researchers lots of incentives to break through the borders of the paradigm."-Contemporary Sociology

"The book presents a coherent and comprehensive statement of the theory and its major contributions. Those teaching graduate seminars in formal theory, experimental methods, stratification, game theory, rational choice, social excahnge, and network theory will find it helpful to have a single volume that contains (1) the principal empirical discoveries predicted by NET; (2) major controversies involving rival theories; and editorial notes that locate each advance within the larder NET research program."-American Journal of Sociology

About the Author

DAVID WILLER is Professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina. Among his earlier publications are Theory and the Experimental Investigation of Social Structures (1987) and, edited with Bo Anderson, Networks Exchange and Coercion (1981).